The web hosting service providing companies dish out resources to form and host websites in small bundles known as packages. These packages (also called plans sometimes) involve various quantum of the numerous resources required to host a website. There are several of formats of hosting in the web. A few prominent types are: Shared web hosting; Reseller Webhosting; VPS (Virtual Private Server) Hosting and dedicated hosting. Certain companies might try for combinations of these formats or call them by other names but the basic ideology remains the same. The web hosting companies invest their capital on buying servers and leased lines for internet connection. They also set up a high security server location along with various fail safe measures of redundancy to cater to emergencies. These resources (i.e. the server memory, internet accessibility bandwidth) are broken up in smaller bundles and then given to their customers on a subscription basis.

The formats differ in the amount of control and resources that the customer is allowed to posses for each type of hosting. Also the packages obviously differ in prices according to the differences mentioned above. The packages can be broken up into the following categories: Beginner; Intermediate and Business Levels. They are basically different allotted bundles to show variations in price tags with the common features in various parameters being of the same concept. They might change in the amount of those resources allotted for each pack; for e.g. the Beginner’s package might have only 2 Giga Bytes of storage space and 2 GB of bandwidth per month and thus would be provided at very low cost price while the Business pack might contain unlimited strange and bandwidth along with loads of other features and support including SSL certification and electronic commerce tools apart from the standard posse of tools and thus be charged at a very high price. Thus the webhosting packages are available with a lot of variations to suit every pocket and need.

In this era of digital communications and connections taking precedence over physical ones the internet dominates the lives of all sentient human beings with or without them actually knowing it. The growing income of the middle income families all over the world has only increased further demand for internet connection as is evident in the case of China and India. Also the increasing use of internet as a media for marketing my various companies and corporate has furthered the spread of the internet all over the world. The percentage of net user’s all over the world is increasing by leaps and bounds year after year.

All this internet traffic is directed at specific internet protocol addresses and most often it is for the purpose of browsing through a web site. All the web sites have grown out of the demand of the people to advertise their products to a level where even transactions worth millions of dollars are carried out in these websites. The government websites dish out e-governance services to its citizens and thus involve both secured encrypted data transactions and general broadcasting of vital public information apart from other vital services. Thus the growing prominence of websites in our day to day life cannot be denied.

The act of setting up these websites is termed webhosting. And the growing demand for good website hosting has made the web hosting one of the most rapidly growing industries in the world. The industry has become rapidly decentralized by setting up server clusters in offshore locations all over the world. This allows them to gain the benefits of scale offered by the foreign countries as well exploit on the cheaper availability of resources in the developing nations. The industry is predicted to go on a positive slope growth curve for at least the next five years.